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#WINNING! Karl Rove to run “Conservative Victory Project”

…Which we know, because he broke the news at the NYT, a bastion of conservatism. Seems Rove thinks he can play the left’s game against the right: define conservatism down so that centrist RINOism becomes the new “conservative right wing,” and the TEA Partiers, constitutional conservatives, classical liberals, and libertarians can become the new fringe Birchers.

Of course, this has the effect of positioning the far left as moderate, but that doesn’t matter much to Mr Rove, whose hanger-on status — following a series of high profile losses and a 5-7 year history of bad party advice — is becoming legendary. And to the base, particularly troublesome.

Which is why we should simply just cut the umbilicus now and let Rove, et al., finish off the GOP.

[…] some of “the biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts.” This new “Conservative Victory Project” is backed by Karl Rove’s American Crossroads 527 organization and its goal, according to Crossroads president Steven Law, “will be to institutionalize the Buckley rule: Support the most conservative candidate who can win.”

In light of their smashing success electing candidates like Tommy Thompson, Rick Berg, Denny Rehberg, George Allen, Heather Wilson, and Linda Lingle, they will expand their roadshow into the primaries during the next election cycle in search of the next candidate who is indistinguishable from his/her Democrat opponent. … One by one, people like Karl Rove seek to crush another sacred belief of the conservative base. All social issues? Gone. Enforcement before amnesty? No way. Stay strong on taxes? Forget about it. Fight Obamacare? That’s a done deal. Folks, we must win back the soul of the Republican Party before we can affect any positive change.

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Missing from both Erickson’s and Horowitz’s posts is any mention of the one candidate actually named in the article as a target for “weeding out” by Rove: Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who has expressed interest in running for retiring Sen. Tom Harkin’s Senate seat.

Do Erickson and Horowitz support King? If all Rove does is weed candidates like King out, as Erickson admits someone should have done to Akin, will Rove’s effort really be that bad?

Exactly! If all Rove is going to do is weed out solid conservatives, what’s the harm? Then the left will like us and moderates will embrace us and we’ll have a thousand years of well-managed, big government technocratic rule — which is precisely what everybody but the odious teabaggers want anyway.

Honestly: how can you say you love your country but distrust your government?

The founders and framers? Fringe extremists who can’t hold an intellectual candle to Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, David Brooks, or Joe Scarborough. So why not just jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

It seems the far-Left will win this little Republic by default. There’s just not enough people who can band together long enough to wrest control from the weakened GOP, much less from the solidified and well-connected Left. We’ll have to wait for them to self-destruct, and hope the coming despotism doesn’t last scores of years.

Last month, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals censured the EPA for “an unreasonable exercise of agency discretion,” telling it to base its mandates on realistic production projections rather than wishful thinking.

The EPA has since engaged in another imaginative exercise: pretending the courts don’t exist. It promptly issued a 2013 mandate that’s even more unrealistic than the previous one.

Next year, refiners will be forced to “buy” 14 million gallons of nonexistent cellulosic biofuel. Perhaps we should be thankful the EPA doesn’t want them delivered by unicorn.

George ClevelandTampaYankee just couldn’t admit that every time he saw Irabu he thought ‘I rob you’, for, admitting as much he’d confess he was punked to have hired the chump in the first instance. So it came out fat-fatty-fatso. This is how certain established elite folk work: they’re extremely forgiving . . . . . . of themselves.

Rove decides to purge “his’ Party of those undesirables while his actual ostensible opponents have their own method of dealing with intra-Party problems.

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez has found himself at the center of a growing controversy, with accusations swirling of a questionable friendship with a Florida eye surgeon being investigated for Medicare fraud, improper flights to the Dominican Republic and alleged patronizing of prostitutes — including underage girls — while in the Caribbean nation.

In some states, these allegations — and the fact the Senate Ethics Committee has joined federal investigators in looking into the explosive claims — would be enough to sink Menendez. But in New Jersey, that may not be enough to topple the Hudson County political boss, who runs the political machine for a part of Jersey known for being rough and tumble and who easily won reelection last year.

“Six years is a long time,” said Democratic former Sen. Robert Torricelli , who left the Senate a decade ago under his own ethics cloud. “I think Bob Menendez is a very tenacious person, and he has the advantage of six long years and a fairly forgiving political environment in New Jersey.

“I wouldn’t be wasting time on a Bob Menendez political obituary,” he added.

OT: Juan Williams was expounding about gun control on the FauxNewz panel again today. I muted him most of the time, but I heard him once say that the government doesn’t want our guns, even after many in the government has said that they do.

In the American system, a Constitutional Convention — which has never been held since the Constitution was adopted — is the last stop before revolution. It was intended as a way for the people to end-run the political establishment; if enough states request a convention, Congress has no choice but to call it, and the resulting proposals go straight to the states for ratification, bypassing Congress. It’s a way to make drastic changes when the political class has blocked smaller ones.

Are we there yet? I don’t think so. But we’re getting closer all the time. Political class, take note.

I’ve actually managed to shut up a few lefties of the “Second Amendment = musket” school by pointing out that at the time the BoR was ratified private citizens could, and did, own fully-armed and crewed warships, suitable for taking prizes on the high seas and raiding coastal towns.

It wasn’t a rare thing, either. There were more than 500 American privateers in the War of 1812.

Good news for Rove. I think pulling a 2008 all over again with Romney pretty much weeded the conservatives out of Rove’s homey little ditch. And if he keeps losing doing the same dumb shit count on Rove’s money to dry up too.

And Krauthammer, of course, opts to press some vague sort of comity. But what, I begin to wonder, does comity get one in a world in which death-dealing has been turned into an industrial process, if anything other than ultimately a bullet to the back of the head in the basement of the Lubyanka?

Better Place’s ambitions to wean the world from oil have shrunk to just two countries as the electric car infrastructure startup said Tuesday it would shutter its North American office and stop investing in its Australian operations.

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In October, the California Energy Commission approved $3 million for the eTaxi project, which Better Place will now withdraw from as part of its retrenchment.*

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